The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1887-12-17
THE TREASURY VAULT.
One OF the Most Perfect store Rooms 70
Coin Ever Constructed.

One OF the Most Perfect Store Rooms for
Coin Ever Constructed.
/ dropped into the Treasury and
looked ut the workmen who are en-
| gagged in constructing the new vault.
| The Treasury itself looks like a tomb.
| IL has great somber columns down
| each side Of it, aud the doors Of its
/ basement arc so cut that they look rs
though they were dug out Of a solid
rock. Every thing about it is massive,
aud it makes me think more Of the
Bank Of England than any other build
ing | have seen. 1t is made in the
shape of n hollow square. with wide
tiers Of granite walls running around
court in the center IL is i'm this
court that the new vault is being built.
It's interior will be cut up into cells.
walled with iron lattice work. and the
workmen are now riveting the iron
bars composing it together. These bars
must be very strong rs the weight OF
the silver which is TO be put in the vault
will be immense. There was n portable
furnace blazing away within the
ing red-hot rivcts and sticking
them through the holes which had
been drilled in these iron bars Thoy
were then rivited by tho pounding Of
heavy hammer while q man held an
iron mallct against them Mt the back.
Each OF these latico-work walls re-
quire 2, 500 riveis. and it will take
more than 100. 900 Of these rivets to
fasten the iron work Of the vault to-
gether. The vault is TO contain $780,
900. 900. which is such an immense
sum that few people can comprehend
it. 1t will give some idea of it to
know that its weight will bo 3, $50
tons. or the weight of 80, 800 men of
POO pounds each. Think of the heavi-
est man you know. and it would take
80 900 such men To weigh rs much rs
does this silver. 1t would take 17S
freight cars To carry il, and it would
take train n mile and a quarter long
to transport it. lis weight would be
so much that locomotives could
hardly haul it, and if these dollars
were laid out SO that one just touched
the other they would make n line g.
305 miles long II they were put into
floor. edge to edge, they would car
pet ten times the area of the Capitol. or
more than thirty acres, and If they were
piled one upon another they would
reach much more than l. 500 times rs
high rs the Washington monument
making n solid column Of silver more
than III miles high. A million dol
lars in silver Is no small quantity, and
when you pack 500 900. 900 into n
vault il has TO be us strong rs stone
and iron can make il. To rob this
vault will bo n physical impossibility.
To tunnel into il one would have to go
under the whole Treasury building.
and lrc would have to drill through
floor of cement and chilled steel before
he got to the coin. Tac slightest noise
would be sure To be heard. and the
movement of n single bag would cause
such n racket as To bring the guard
down upon him iIstanter. No attempt
has. think, ever been made to rob the
United States Treasury, and the safe
guards about it are So strong that none
but the crazicst of men would think of
trying II. 49, Washington Letter D
SdUdnnah NewS.
do you know, Mss smith," he
said. that when see you always look
about for white horse?' IL suppose
you do, Mr. Brown shcrepiied. land
do you know the color of the horse
that look for on seeing you9" NO"
Chestnut ~ L. Sun